Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of five info sheets:What is CAM [complementary and alternative medicine]? Who Uses it and Why?Ethical Issues and the Use of CAMNatural Health Products: Regulatory IssuesRegulating CAM Practices and PractitionersKey Resources
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
Video
Resource Type:
Presentation
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (www.aidslaw.ca) promotes the human rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research and analysis, advocacy and litigation, public education and community mobilization. The...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
On June 25, the Ontario Court of Appeal decided to postpone hearing appeals in two prosecutions for HIV non-disclosure, R v. M and R v. F, until after the Supreme Court of Canada delivers its decisions in two other cases, R v. Mabior and R v. DC, anticipated later...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
Video
Meet Sheryl, a mother of two who was infected with hepatitis C from sharing drug injection equipment. She describes the trauma of prison. Part of a series on prison health.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Please note that the sections of this document that describe the current state of the criminal law as it relates to HIV non-disclosure do not take into account the recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions in R. v. Mabior and R. v. D.C. We are presently working to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
FEATUREBedford v. Canada: a paradigmatic case toward ensuring the human and health rights of sex workersA tale of two cases: urging caution in the prosecution of HIV non-disclosureCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSSenate stalling derails bill to fix Canada’s law on...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
DOSSIERAnalyse des lois et politiques sur la prévention, le traitement et les soins en matière de VIH, pour les personnes qui font usage de drogue et les personnes incarcérées en Asie centrale et en AzerbaïdjanDÉVELOPPEMENTS AU CANADAVers la mise en place de sites...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Increasingly more people who use drugs are locked away in the name of drug rehabilitation without any real access to medical care or legal recourse. Drug users rarely enter such detention centers voluntarily, and even if they do, they nearly never are allowed to leave...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
WLSA–Malawi is challenging Malawi’s approach to marital property law before the Constitutional Court of Malawi because it discriminates against women. They are fighting for an approach to marital property that would give a husband and wife equal control...
